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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 You gotta see this! #130869 07/29/04 08:44 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington OP Carpal Tunnel OP TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC This is a listing of the most-used words in the English language, ranked in order. It has over 86000 words on it. You can plug in a word and it tells you the rank or you can plug in a rank and it tells you the word. One NEAT site! http://www.wordcount.org/main.php TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130870 07/30/04 10:59 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 All I get is a blank white page, in either Opera or Exploder. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130871 07/30/04 12:41 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA It works fine on my machine. Perhaps there is some degree of operator error. It includes naughty words. Who wudda thunk that the naughtiest one would come right after "charming" and next before "workshop"? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130872 07/30/04 12:45 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York operator error I wonder if it needs Flash/Shockwave, something we *still haven't installed on our machine? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130873 07/30/04 12:51 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont worked fine for me in OSX with Safari. yeah, you need Flash. but for Flash sites, this one is pretty small, which is nice. and it is a lot of fun! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130874 07/30/04 01:57 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) N nancyk addict nancyk addict N Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) Also seems to include misspellings: suprise is #86033. And who woulda thought Forgan (an Oklahoma town, pop. 489), at 86027, would outrank both downloading (86031) and conquistador (86800). Especially downloading. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130875 07/30/04 03:43 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Yeah, it's quite time consuming to have to load a flash *document for each single incremental change (increase or decrease) across the list. However, at #66 I did find the first word of personal interest. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: You gotta see this! #130876 07/30/04 04:02 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Thanks for both the commentary and the technical info, y'all. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter A sinister aspect: #130877 07/30/04 05:01 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington OP Carpal Tunnel OP TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC I got to thinking about this website, and it occurred to me to be an excellent method for communicating in code, particularly if one were to scramble the word order and agree with the recipient on the new order. And you would have to scramble it somehow, since a dead giveaway would be to have most of the coded text coming from the first hundred or first thousand five-digit numbers. This might be something NSA should take a look at! TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Naughty words #130878 07/30/04 05:12 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK The 'naughtiest' word I can think of comes between nudged and dogmatic. 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